Parlor-grate



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(No Model.)

0. J. WADSWORTH. PARLOR GRATE.

Patented Mar. 4, 1890.

(No Model.) Z'Sheets-Sheet 2. C. J. WADSWORTH. PARLOR GRATE. No. 422,471. Patented Mar. 4,1890,

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. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHESTER J. YVADS'vVORTH, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

PARLOR-G RATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 422,471, dated March 4, 1890.

Application filed May 6, 1889- Serial No.309,823- (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHESTER J. \VADS- WORTH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fire -Place Grates, of which the following is a specification.

This invention-relates to parlor fire-grates; and it consists in the peculiar construction and combination, with .the grate-bars, of a rocking and dumping mechanism, as hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front View of a grate. Fig. 2 is a top or plan view of a grate having my improvement attached. Fig. 3 is an end view of the grate, showing my new rocking and dumping mechanism. Fig. 4 is a detached view of the rocking and dumping handle. Fig. 5 is a vertical section through the right front jamb, showing the handle attached and manner of rocking the grate-bars.

A represents the front frame covering the jambs of a fire-place.

B B B are grate-bars having serrated edges, and are journaled in the end cross-bars of a supporting-frame. On the right-hand end of said grate-bars are provided crank-arms C C C those on the two outside bars turned downward at an angle of about thirty-six degrees from the level plane and that on the middle bar at an angle of thirty-six degrees upward from the level plane.

D is a bar connected with the cranks of said grate-bars B by means of a hole near its middle upper part to the middle crank, and

by slots d din its under side to the two outside cranks. This bar D is used for shaking and turning the grate-bars, as. hereinafter shown. The forward end of said bar D extends to an opening E in the frame A, and has a hook e on the end.

F is a handle for shaking the grate. On

the lower corner is provided a T-shaped pro- 'jection f, which is designed to be inserted in a T-shaped slot f in the front frame A. This forms a fulcrum upon which the handle is vibrated. v

F is an upwardly-extending arm 011 said handle, and has a hook f which engages with the hook e on the bar D. The vibrating movements of the handle are thus imparted to the bar D for agitating the gratebars.

G is a latch-plate set 011 the inside of the frame A, designed as a stop to limit the movements of the bar for shaking the grate by the striking of a shoulder on the top edge of the bar. Said plate G hasa pin 9 projecting through a slot 9 inthe plate A. The purpose of this is to provide for raising the plate G, when desired, to turn the grate-bars B for dumping and allow the bar D to be brought farther forward for that purpose.

Having described my invention, I claim as follows:

1. The combination of the grate-bars B B B, trunnioned in the end bars of the frame, the outside grate-bars having the downwardreaching crank-arms C C and the middle bar having upward-reaching crank-arm C the bar D, pivotally attached to crank C and connected to cranks C C by the slots d cl, and a means for reciprocally operating said bar D for imparting a rocking motion to the grate-bars, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. In combination, the bar. D, connected to the crank-arms C C C in the manner de scribed, the lever F, provided with the arm F and the T-head projection f, hook f, the slide G, and the jamb-front A, constructed and arranged to operate substantially as described.

CHESTER J. WADSWORTH. Witnesses: GEO. W. TIBBITTS, JO N W. TAYLOR. 

